A personaw supercomputer (PSC) is a high-performance computer system wif capabiwities and costs between dose of standard personaw computers and supercomputers. They awwow an individuaw or organization to have access to a significant amount of computing power and are often used for a singwe purpose. They are typicawwy buiwt by de user, but commerciaw modews are avaiwabwe. Awdough considerabwy more expensive dan a personaw computer, PSCs are affordabwe to many peopwe.

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A common way of buiwding a PSC is syncing severaw computers wif fast networking (commonwy duaw gigabitEdernet switching per processor) winked by a gigabit network switch. Some PSCs[1] use cwustered GPUs or CPUs. For exampwe, de TYANPSC uses 40 Xeon processors to achieve 256 gigafwops.

They can be used in medicaw appwications for processing brain and body scans, resuwting in faster diagnosis.[2] Anoder appwication is persistent aeriaw surveiwwance where warge amounts of video data needs to be processed and stored.